Audio Column by Sukey Howard

Though The Devil's Feather, excellently read here by Josephine Bailey, is Minette Walters' 11th suspense novel, I'd never read or listened to her before. That was a big mistake: Walters is too good to miss if you like a well-written, well-crafted psychologically complex thriller with characters and situations that stay with you long after the last CD stops spinning. When Reuters war...

eath by misadventure: that's the coroner's verdict in the death of Ann Butts, found dying in a London gutter on a rain-soaked night in the winter of 1978. Case closed. Or is it? "Mad Annie," as she is known to her neighbors, is an unpopular, antisocial person, who drinks, mutters to herself and lives alone with a menagerie of stray cats. She is cruelly ridiculed by her neighbors for her strange...